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Installing their own equipment into the local exchange is expensive Whereas a sky customer on LLU will have fantastic speeds as Sky are not having to pay BT a premium. This means that people who are not on LLU have a poor experience and slow speeds. It is far more costly per GB than using their own LLU network.īecause of this Sky minimize on the amount of backhaul that they buy from BT. & Sky have to pay a premium to BT for the data that you use. So without LLU sky have to use BTs equipment. This is instead of your line connecting to the local exchange and connecting to sky directly through skys LLU

Your house - local exchange - BTs equipment - Sky HOWEVER your line connects to the local exchange and then accesses sky via BTs equipment. You can still subscribe to sky broadband.

If Sky have not been to your local exchange and have not put their equipment into your exchange. When you subscribe to Sky you then get Sky's LLU broadband and your line connects directly to Skys equipment at the exchange. So SKY will go to your local exchange and put Sky equipment into this. LLU is where the service provider has put their equipment into your local telephone exchange (usually a building near to you) Generally if you choose an LLU provider you will see your full sync speed. I can see what other providers are available, but is there any way to see what the speeds they can provide are actually like?

YouTube videos break up and require buffering repeatedly and downloads take an age to complete. I don't understand why there is such variation between tests (and between parts of the BBC test)? Certainly the connection that I get in practical terms does not *feel* like a 3MB+ connection. These are better than I see with the ThinkBroadband test, but still not at the level that the router says I am syncing at.

In reply to a post by AndyLaw:Using the Broadbandmax speed test, I get around 3M down and 400k up. If that *is* the case, will switching provider put me onto a fatter pipe?įor the record, my connection status details are:Īnd Think Broadband speed test currently says: I can only interpret this as being a contention problem and a lack of pipe capacity from the exchange to the rest of the internet. However, in *practice* - using the ThinkBroadband speed tester and with real-world downloads - I'm never getting better than 1.4M. Indeed, the router says that the sync speed is - currently - 7996kbps. Sky refuse to believe that there is anything wrong with my line which means endless trips around the "plug a different filter, test socket, script roundabout" and no progress. I have Sky Broadband and, frankly, I'm unimpressed.